Accounting Today’s fourth year for the list.
Top winners are to be announced at Accounting Today’s 2nd Annual Growth & Profitability Summit on Oct. 25-27 in Las Vegas.
The Best Accounting Firms to Work For list includes 50 small firms (15-49 employees), 45 midsized firms (50-249 employees) and five large firms (more than 250 employees).
Vault.com ranks accounting firms by “quality of life” issues.
Leading the way was Elliot Davis, which took the top spot in four categories, with WithumSmith+Brown and Deloitte each earning No. 1 rankings in three categories.
S&G Financial Services took the lead in two categories, and Armanino McKenna, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Rothstein Kass each grabbed one top spot in this year’s rankings.
FBI background checks for some PTIN registrants.
The IRS is airing proposed rules and user fees for fingerprinting and for taking the new competency examination.
Total fees, counting the IRS share and corporate contractors doing the work, are expected to be between $60 and $90 for fingerprinting and $100 and $125 for testing.
The IRS share of the fingerprinting fee is expected to be $33 and $27 for the test.
Maybe the 150-person firm in Bellevue, Wash., has found a winning formula.
Clark Nuber is consistently ranked among one of Washington’s best places to work and the firm has an 88 percent retention rate. Tracy L. White, SPHR, Senior Director of Human Resources, shares insights into what it takes to build a dedicated staff:
Last chance to take care of yourself, your career, your firm — before busy season begins.
The painful journey to a new era.
by Bruce W. Marcus
Professional Services Marketing 3.0
In the years following Bates, accounting firms began a long and difficult process of learning how to market.
Accountants were still so steeped in the no-commercialization ethic that they tried to resist any form of marketing. They couldn’t, because other firms had started doing it, and were winning clients.
“The ROI on social media is that you’ll still be in business in five years.”
But it depends on your taste for risk. by Jean Marie Caragher Capstone Marketing There are at least four types of opportunities your firm can pursue in considering new niche growth, each with its own level of risk: 1. Market penetration. … Continued